Shawn Meng

“I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Out my window this morning, just before sunrise, a deer stood in a fog so dense and bright that the second one, not too far away, looked like the unfinished shadow of the first.

You can color that in. You can call it ‘The History of Memory”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks